| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.43 | Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his | Spurio his sicatrice, with an Embleme of warre heere on his |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.36 | You have made shift to run into't, boots and spurs | You haue made shift to run into't, bootes and spurres |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.103 | his spurs so long. How does he carry himself? | his spurres so long. How does he carry himselfe? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.159 | hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a hundred and | houre, I will tell true. Let me see, Spurio a hundred & |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.63 | Horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes | horrible Villaine, or Ile spurne thine eyes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.7 | The fugitive Parthians follow. Spur through Media, | The Fugitiue Parthians follow. Spurre through Media, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.15 | He's walking in the garden – thus, and spurns | He's walking in the garden thus, and spurnes |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.39 | lover, as a puisny tilter that spurs his horse but on one | louer, as a puisny Tilter, y^t spurs his horse but on one |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.83 | That like a football you do spurn me thus? | That like a foot-ball you doe spurne me thus: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.84 | You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither. | You spurne me hence, and he will spurne me hither, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.143 | Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me, | Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurne at me, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.33.1 | I may spur on my journey. | I may spurre on my iourney. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.165 | And spurn me back. But if it be not so, | And spurne me backe: But, if it be not so |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.99.1 | What both you spur and stop. | What both you spur and stop. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.18 | pieces before thy face: and all this done, spurn | peeces before thy face: and all this done, spurne |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.58.1 | Mingle their spurs together. | Mingle their spurres together. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.294 | With language that would make me spurn the sea, | With Language that would make me spurne the Sea, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.73 | The insolence of office, and the spurns | The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.33 | And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.6 | Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt | Spurnes enuiously at Strawes, speakes things in doubt, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.52 | On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, | On Holy-roode day, the gallant Hotspurre there, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.70 | On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners Hotspur took | On Holmedons Plaines. Of Prisoners, Hotspurre tooke |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.1.1 | Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspur, | Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspurre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.244 | 'Sblood, when you and he came back from Ravenspurgh – | When you and he came backe from Rauenspurgh. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.1 | Enter Hotspur alone, reading a letter | Enter Hotspurre solus, reading a Letter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.101 | Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or seven | Hotspurre of the North, he that killes me some sixe or seauen |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.1.1 | Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Lord Mortimer, Owen | Enter Hotspurre, Worcester, Lord Mortimer, Owen |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.6 | Sit, cousin Percy, sit – good cousin Hotspur – | Sit Cousin Percy, sit good Cousin Hotspurre: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.95 | When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh, | When I from France set foot at Rauenspurgh; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.112 | Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swaddling clothes, | Thrice hath the Hotspur Mars, in swathing Clothes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.140 | This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight, | This gallant Hotspur, this all-praysed Knight. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.1 | Enter Hotspur, Worcester, and Douglas | Enter Harrie Hotspurre, Worcester, and Dowglas. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.1 | Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas, Vernon | Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Dowglas, and Vernon. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.77 | Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh; | Vpon the naked shore at Rauenspurgh: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.116 | The Douglas and the Hotspur both together | The Dowglas and the Hotspurre both together, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.19 | A hare-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen. | A haire-brain'd Hotspurre, gouern'd by a Spleene: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.27 | Enter Hotspur and Douglas | Enter Hotspurre. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.14.2 | Then enter Hotspur | then enters Hotspur. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.58 | Enter Hotspur | Enter Hotspur. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.76.4 | The Prince mortally wounds Hotspur | The Prince killeth Percie. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.128.1 | He takes up Hotspur on his back | Takes Hotspurre on his backe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.25 | Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, | Hath beaten downe yong Hotspurre, and his Troopes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.30 | Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword, | Vnder the Wrath of Noble Hotspurres Sword: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.36 | Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland, | Where Hotspurres Father, old Northumberland, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.36 | Outrode me. After him came spurring hard | Out-rod me. After him, came spurring head |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.42 | And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold. | And that yong Harry Percies Spurre was cold. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.49 | Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold? | Said he yong Harrie Percyes Spurre was cold? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.50 | Of Hotspur, Coldspur? That rebellion | (Of Hot-Spurre, cold-Spurre?) that Rebellion, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.121 | So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, | So did our Men, heauy in Hotspurres losse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.26 | It was young Hotspur's cause at Shrewsbury. | It was yong Hotspurres case, at Shrewsbury. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.37 | Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name | Where nothing but the sound of Hotspurs Name |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.44 | Today might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck, | To day might I (hanging on Hotspurs Necke) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.117 | Their neighing coursers daring of the spur, | Their neighing Coursers daring of the Spurre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.89 | Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image, | Nay more, to spurne at your most Royall Image, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.6 | From helmet to the spur all blood he was. | From Helmet to the spurre, all blood he was. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.52 | And spurn in pieces posts of adamant; | And spurne in pieces Posts of Adamant. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.19 | Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot, | Spurre to the rescue of the Noble Talbot, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.148 | She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, | Shee's tickled now, her Fume needs no spurres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.117 | Have I disbursed to the garrisons, | Haue I dis-pursed to the Garrisons, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.58 | When he might spurn him with his foot away? | When he might spurne him with his Foot away? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.8 | From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York, | From Rauenspurre Hauen, before the Gates of Yorke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.9 | Ne'er spurred their coursers at the trumpet's sound; | Ne're spurr'd their Coursers at the Trumpets sound. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.23 | But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em | But stop their mouthes with stubborn Bits & spurre'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.11 | I know no personal cause to spurn at him, | I know no personall cause, to spurne at him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.123 | What need we any spur but our own cause | What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.46 | I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. | I spurne thee like a Curre out of my way: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.25 | But when they should endure the bloody spur, | But when they should endure the bloody Spurre, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.15 | Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him, | Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurres in him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.29 | With horsemen, that make to him on the spur, | With Horsemen, that make to him on the Spurre, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.30 | Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him. | Yet he spurres on. Now they are almost on him: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.50 | That spurn against my sovereignty in France. | That spurne against my souereignety in France. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.28 | Their light-borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurs, | Their light borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurre |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.87 | Or, coldly negligent, did need a spur, | Or coldly negligent did need a spurre, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.99 | And double gild my spurs, but I will catch him. | And double guild my spurs, but I will catch him, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.121 | After which sight, to Calais spur amain, | After which sight to Callice spurre amaine, |
| King John | KJ II.i.24 | Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides | Whose foot spurnes backe the Oceans roaring tides, |
| King John | KJ III.i.142 | So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce | So wilfully dost spurne; and force perforce |
| King Lear | KL II.i.75 | Were very pregnant and potential spurs | Were very pregnant and potentiall spirits |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.143 | By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. | By rule of Knight-hood, I disdaine and spurne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.1 | Was that the King that spurred his horse so hard | Was that the King that spurd his horse so hard, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.23 | And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him | And his great Loue (sharpe as his Spurre) hath holp him |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.25 | That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur | That teares shall drowne the winde. I haue no Spurre |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.6 | Now spurs the lated traveller apace | Now spurres the lated Traueller apace, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.30 | He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear | He shall spurne Fate, scorne Death, and beare |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.161 | He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; | He can command; lets it strait feele the spur: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.79 | That in himself which he spurs on his power | That in himselfe, which he spurres on his powre |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.13 | Copperspur, and Master Starve-lackey, the rapier and | Copperspurre, and M Starue-Lackey the Rapier and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.115 | And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur | And foote me as you spurne a stranger curre |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.124 | You spurned me such a day, another time | You spurn'd me such a day; another time |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.128 | To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too. | To spet on thee againe, to spurne thee too. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.95 | As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord. | As this fore-spurrer comes before his Lord. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.63 | one of them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and | one of them, in a slough of myre; and set spurres, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.205 | Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, | Vse me but as your spaniell; spurne me, strike me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.225 | Who even but now did spurn me with his foot – | (Who euen but now did spurne me with his foote) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.313 | To strike me, spurn me – nay, to kill me too. | To strike me, spurne me, nay to kill me too; |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.23 | But if to that my nature need a spur, | but if to that, / My nature neede a spurre, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.55 | From giving reins and spurs to my free speech, | From giuing reines and spurres to my free speech, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.9 | Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? | Findes brotherhood in thee no sharper spurre? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.36 | He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. | He tyres betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.296 | Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh. | Away with me in poste to Rauenspurgh, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.51.1 | At Ravenspurgh. | At Rauenspurg. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.9 | From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found | From Rauenspurgh to Cottshold will be found, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.31 | But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh | But hee, my Lord, is gone to Rauenspurgh, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.35 | Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh. | Then with direction to repaire to Rauenspurgh. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.58 | Bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste. | Bloody with spurring, fierie red with haste. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.53 | And spur thee on with full as many lies | |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.72 | How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse! | How fondly do'st thou spurre a forward Horse? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.113 | Spur, post, and get before him to the King, | Spurre post, and get before him to the King, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.94 | Spurred, galled, and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. | Spur-gall'd, and tyrd by iauncing Bullingbrooke. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.42 | And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. | And spurne vpon thee Begger for thy boldnesse. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.201 | Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's? | Spurne at his Edict, and fulfill a Mans? |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.341 | Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood! | Spurre your proud Horses hard, and ride in blood, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.68 | Swits and spurs, swits and spurs! or I'll cry a | Swits and spurs, / Swits and spurs, or Ile crie a |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.47 | Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up | Haue I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt vp |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.88 | Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants, | Spurnes downe her late beloued; all his Dependants |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.274 | Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee | Away vnpeaceable Dogge, / Or Ile spurne thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.138 | Who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves | Who dyes, that beares not one spurne to their graues |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.66 | Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would | Each man to his stoole, with that spurre as hee would |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.154 | And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice, | And marre mens spurring. Cracke the Lawyers voyce, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.101 | But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn | But that which giues my soule the greatest spurne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.201 | A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds, | A spurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.186 | As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, | As hot as Perseus, spurre thy Phrygian Steed, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.48 | Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth! | Spur them to ruthfull worke, reine them from ruth. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.5 | More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth, | (More sharpe then filed steele) did spurre me forth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.14 | Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love | Yet (Spaniel-like) the more she spurnes my loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.6 | So much they spur their expedition. | So much they spur their expedition. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.7 | But love will not be spurred to what it loathes. | But loue will not be spurd to what it loathes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.182 | To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch | To make Mars spurne his Drom. O if thou couch |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.106 | Yet pardon me hard language; when I spur | Yet pardon me hard language, when I spur |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.76 | I spurred hard to come up, and under me | I spurd hard to come up, and under me |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.56 | Hark how yon spurs to spirit do incite | Harke how yon spurs to spirit doe incite |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.116 | Did spur a noble steed; surely, the gods | Did spur a noble Steed: Surely the gods |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.96 | With spur we heat an acre. But to th' goal: | With Spur we heat an Acre. But to th' Goale: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.187 | Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well? | Shall stop, or spurre me. Haue I done well? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.9 | is another spur to my departure. | is another spurre to my departure. |